The effect of fuel thermal conductivity on the behavior of LWR cores during loss-of-coolant accidents

2013/10/05 by Kurt A. Terrani, Dean Wang, Larry J. Ott +3 · 79 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · #Boiling #Composite material #Coolant #Engineering #Environmental science #Fission products #Heat transfer #Light-water reactor #Loss-of-coolant accident #Materials science #Mechanics #Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics #Nuclear Materials and Properties #Nuclear engineering #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #Physics #Pressurizer #Thermal conductivity #Thermal hydraulics #Thermodynamics

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2013.09.051

published in Journal of Nuclear Materials 448(1-3), 512-519 (Elsevier BV)

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